Pandorum

I saw the movie Pandorum yesterday and loved it. Of course, it was really scary and I jumped a few times in the theater! I get so into these movies sometimes. Anyway, It got me to thinking about how we measure time. There are two measures, vertical and horizontal. Horizontal time is what we experience in our day to day lives. The time it takes to drive to work; to brush our teeth; to make something out of a piece of paper using origami. The conscious mind perceives time in this fashion and can become disoriented easily when the stream of consciousness is interrupted. Then I started looking at the other kind of time, Vertical time. This is the kind of time used when you get a flash of insight, or see a vision during meditation, or just seem to know something without knowing how you know (intuition). I've known a lot of people who argue that time does exist and we experience it, then there are others that say time doesn't exist and what we experience as time is only an illusion that the conscious mind perceives is time. It would be great to be able to answer that question and truly know what the truth is!

However, my thought was more along the lines of, "In the future if it is discovered that time is an illusion, then could someone be trained to withstand the illusion of time so that no matter whether their conscious mind is functioning (awake), or not (asleep), the person would be aware of it?" I wonder if the person would even seem human. Since most people (including myself) do not function this way. I think its interesting to visualize what that might be like, ie to meet someone or become someone like this.

As far as I am aware there is are only a few scientific practices that supposedly allow one to exist this way (its also a healthy way to live). These practices are: daily meditation, daily concentration, and daily memory exercises; as taught by the ancient yogi's and even more ancient Vedas.